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		<title>Poetry Roundup — February 2026</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 02:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A selection of writing from February. More of my short-form writing can be found on Bluesky. Prompt: Knowingly (vss365) She smiled, knowinglyBut he’d never seen her smileAny other way Prompt: Beastly (vss365) Our mediated human hopes and dreams,Infested with abstraction and decay.Enshittifying all until it seems,That life is dopamine without delay.In base indulgence do we &#8230; <a href="https://www.inklings.co.nz/978/poetry-roundup-february-2026/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Poetry Roundup — February 2026</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Poetry Roundup — January 2026</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My public writing exercises have been sporadic (at best) since the demise of Twitter&#8230; But a critical mass of that writing community has now anointed Bluesky the heir apparent, so 2026 finally brings more short-form work. Prompt: Unmoored (vss365) A vessel I wrought of intention and dream sits scuttled below (an inept submarine) And all &#8230; <a href="https://www.inklings.co.nz/963/poetry-roundup-january-2026/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Poetry Roundup — January 2026</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Poetry Roundup – August 2020</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2020 05:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’m publishing (on average) a short piece per day on Twitter, including a mix of poetry and prose, so I’m posting a “highlights reel” here, and the rest can be found on my profile, @PeterRavlich. Edit: I deleted my Twitter content following unethical behaviour by the platform&#8217;s new ownership, and the prospect of having my work &#8230; <a href="https://www.inklings.co.nz/933/poetry-roundup-august-2020/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Poetry Roundup – August 2020</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Poetry Roundup &#8211; July 2020</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2020 00:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m publishing an average of around one short piece per day on Twitter, including a mix of poetry and prose, so I&#8217;m posting a &#8220;highlights reel&#8221; here, and the rest can be found on my profile, @PeterRavlich. If you enjoy ultra short form work, there are hundreds of other poets and writers creating moments of &#8230; <a href="https://www.inklings.co.nz/918/poetry-roundup-july-2020/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Poetry Roundup &#8211; July 2020</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Poetry Roundup &#8211; Early 2020</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2020 03:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Prompt: Rubiginous (#vss365) Have you seenmy electrons?I could swearI left them here…or there…or in this vagueproximity I used to beexquisitewhen I had themfloating nearbut now I&#8217;moxidised forall to see Prompt: Velleity (#vss365) Did I tell youof a boy—let&#8217;s call him Henry—who couldn&#8217;t quitedecouple fromhis sheets?&#8220;I&#8217;ll get up soon,&#8221;he said,a timeortwentyand that duvetwasattached to himfor weeks &#8230; <a href="https://www.inklings.co.nz/923/poetry-roundup-early-2020/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Poetry Roundup &#8211; Early 2020</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>In Shakespeare&#8217;s Footsteps</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2020 00:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Shakespeare Globe Centre New Zealand (SCGNZ) has been running a series of competitions, and I&#8217;m really pleased to have won second prize in their sonnet competition for my piece From The Dark Lady. My winning sonnet and other entries follow. Two draw on Shakespeare&#8217;s characters, and the other two take four &#8220;quotable lines&#8221; from &#8230; <a href="https://www.inklings.co.nz/899/in-shakespeares-footsteps/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">In Shakespeare&#8217;s Footsteps</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Negative Place</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2018 22:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It’s only an absence, A void isn’t that how they used to define it? And there’s no crime in passing through space is there? Unless they do it, But that’s &#8211; different. They’re Different. It’s common sense. Good old-fashioned common sense. See? We’re all white here. Who? Don’t know who you’re talking about. It doesn’t &#8230; <a href="https://www.inklings.co.nz/789/negative-place/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Negative Place</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Sky&#8217;s the limit on #DomesticViolence</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jan 2018 22:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Once it was over your anger embedded in her broken back did your fist hurt? Was that your first or only regret? Once it was over and always should be over you.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Poetry round-up &#8211; November 2017</title>
		<link>https://www.inklings.co.nz/776/poetry-round-up-november-2017/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2017 04:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ahem. I haven&#8217;t posted a poetry update since September last year, but I have been posting poems to Twitter, if intermittently. Here goes&#8230; &#160; The library How imperfectly these myriad spines reflect the worlds within; Infinities of allusions bound to a single plane. &#160; Soft White This lump this privilege isn&#8217;t hard-won. It can&#8217;t be &#8230; <a href="https://www.inklings.co.nz/776/poetry-round-up-november-2017/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Poetry round-up &#8211; November 2017</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Poetry round-up &#8211; September 2016</title>
		<link>https://www.inklings.co.nz/743/poetry-sep-2016/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2016 00:20:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Short-form Twitter poems published in August and September 2016]]></description>
		
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		<title>Sauron&#8217;s Equilibrium</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2016 23:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The shadow permeates this realm, each eve, The conqueror of everything we saw &#8211; But see no longer, until dawn&#8217;s reprieve, Revealing once again what reigned before. Our meagre preparations for the night, The bolted door, and lover&#8217;s dread embrace, Are lies before the fading of the light, Which seeps inside and bids our world &#8230; <a href="https://www.inklings.co.nz/740/saurons-equilibrium/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Sauron&#8217;s Equilibrium</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Poetry Round-up &#8211; June 2016</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2016 00:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Orlando Forty-nine or fifty are only numbers without volition divided, subtracted on a whim nothing to fear or hate or love there &#8211; But each One matters each One a world that we can no longer count. Trumped Which laughed at your naiveté and rolled at your disdain: These eyes, they droop in disbelief, and &#8230; <a href="https://www.inklings.co.nz/748/poetry-round-up-june-2016/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Poetry Round-up &#8211; June 2016</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Poetry round-up &#8211; May 2016</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2016 00:21:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The conceited type The give beneath each pliant key which ends and sunders suddenly all sense of grace, or wit, or will: the cursor moves but words are still. Grief can miscast these laughter lines as sodden trenches; But your panache &#8211; even past &#8211; presents a pitch-perfect comedy]]></description>
		
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		<title>Same shit, different eyes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Feb 2016 00:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What matters context, save Perspective&#8217;s key, When contemplating dull captivity? For words would take unmitigated flight; But knowledge binds them into black and white. And so, ascribing malice to the spheres &#8211; Expecting that to dry the convict&#8217;s tears &#8211; May err in fact, while still remaining true: His weeping may to other cause be &#8230; <a href="https://www.inklings.co.nz/644/same-shit-different-eyes/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Same shit, different eyes</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Remember, remember&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2015 02:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8230; the month of November The characters, setting and plot; When scribes of all ages put novels to pages, Or (at least) give the challenge a shot. However, whomever, you write this November, It all boils down to the text: Though resolve may diminish, you’ll get to the finish With one word preceding the next.  Two days &#8230; <a href="https://www.inklings.co.nz/612/remember-remember/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Remember, remember&#8230;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Shelley&#8217;s Christmas Surprise</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2014 23:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[An Advent Calendar. What perils must Martin face on his quest to find the perfect gift for Shelley? We can't tell you yet; it's an Advent Calendar.]]></description>
		
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		<title>It&#8217;s dark inside</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Nov 2013 04:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What secrets does the world of insomnia conceal? A dark Shakespearean sonnet, written using the prompts “fading light” and “discovery.”]]></description>
		
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		<title>We, the victors</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Nov 2013 03:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A reflection on war and the meaning of victory, in the form of a cinquain poem.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Experiment One-point-oh</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Oct 2013 19:21:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Said the Shaman, sharing solace,
"Leave the darker arts alone:
Time to mourn and time to conjure
Mix the two and you'll be done." ...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Torea</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2013 15:24:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A free verse poem, written for and shortlisted in the 2013 AUT creative writing competition.]]></description>
		
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